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<h1>Introduction</h1>
Remota is an application which can be used as a wireless mouse and a wireless keyboard.
You can remote control your host PC with simple user interfaces like a touch pad or Nintendo Wii motion plus.

<h1>Requirements</h1>
<ul>
<li>A Bluetooth dongle on your host PC</li>
<li>A server application on your host PC</li>
</ul>

Remota runs on the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile(SPP), so you need a Bluetooth dongle.
Packets from your mobile device to your host PC go on a Bluetooth serial port as general data,
so your host PC needs a server application for analyze this data.

<h1>Preparations</h1>
<h2>Pairing</h2>
First, you need pairing your mobile device to your host PC with the following steps.

<p>
Case the Windows bluetooth stack:
<ol>
<li>Press the menu key and select "Make discoverable"</li>
<li>Search your mobile device from your host PC</li>
  <ol>
  <li>Press the Bluetooth icon on the tasktray</li>
  <li>Press "Add a new Bluetooth Device"</li>
  <li>Select your mobile device</li>
  </ol>
<li>Enter pairing passkey</li>
</ol>
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Case the Toshiba bluetooth stack:
<ol>
<li>Host PC: Make your host PC discoverble</li>
  <ol>
  <li>Start -> All Programs -> TOSHIBA -> Bluetooth -> Bluetooth Settings -> Bluetooth -> Options -> Security -> Custom Level</li>
  <li>Check off all options in the "Mode" section</li>
  </ol>
<li>Run Remota, press the menu key and press "Connect a device"</li>
<li>Press "Scan for devices"</li>
<li>Select your host PC in the "New devices" section</li>
<li>Enter pairing passkey</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Install server application</h2>		
Next, install the server application(RemotaHost*****.zip) from the following URL to your host PC.

<p>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/remota/downloads/list">Remota project<br>http://code.google.com/p/remota/downloads/list</a>
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<h1>How to use</h1>
<h2>Find the incoming COM port</h2>
<a name="find_incoming_port"></a>
The server application on your host PC must listen the incoming COM port to receive packets from Remota.
The incoming COM port number can be found by the following steps.

<p>
Case the Windows bluetooth stack:
<ol>
<li>Press the Bluetooth icon on the tasktray</li>
<li>Press "Open Bluetooth Settings"</li>
<li>Press the "COM Ports" tab</li>
<li>Find the COM port whose name is your mobile device and direction is incoming</li>
</ol>
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Case the Toshiba bluetooth stack:
<ol>
<li>Open the control panel</li>
<li>Press "Bluetooth Local COM"</li>
<li>Find the COM port whose owner is "LocalCOM-Server[SerialPort(LocalCOM)]"</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Connect</h2>
Connect your mobile device to your host PC in the following steps.
If your mobile device has a gyroscope, 
you can use the motion pad mode(before connect, 
press the menu key and select "Settings", tap "Mode" and select "Motion pad mode").

<ol>
<li>Host PC: Run the server application</li>
<li>Host PC: Select the incoming COM port which can be found by <a href="help.html#find_incoming_port">this steps</a></li>
<li>Host PC: Press the start button</li>
<li>Press the menu key, select "Connect a device" and select your host PC in the "Paired devices" section</li>
</ol>

When the connection is complete, the screen corresponding the selected mode will appear.

<h2>Touch pad mode</h2>
<a name="touch_pad"></a>

The touch pad screen has the following five areas: the left button, the right button, the keyboard button, the scroll area and the touch pad area.

<div class="figure">
<p><img src="images/touch_pad_l_text.png" width="550" align="center"></p>
<p>The touch pad screen</p>
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<dl>
<dt>Move</dt>
<dd>Move a finger in the touch pad area</dd>
<dt>Left button click</dt>
<dd>Tap at the touch pad or the left button</dd>
<dt>Right button click</dt>
<dd>Tap at the right button</dd>
<dt>Drag and drop</dt>
<dd>Touch down the left button and move another finger in the touch pad area</dd>
<dt>Scroll</dt>
<dd>Move a finger in the scroll area</dd>
<dt>Input keys</dt>
<dd>Touch down the keyboard button, then the following keyboard screen will appear</dd>
</dl>

<div class="figure">
<p><img src="images/keyboard_l.png" width="550" align="center"></p>
<p>The keyboard screen</p>
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<h2>Motion pad mode</h2>
<a name="motion_pad"></a>
<div class="caution">
Requiring a gyroscope.
</div>

When the screen is touched down, the following four areas will appear around the touch down point : 
the left button, the right button, the keyboard button and the scroll button.

<div class="figure">
<p><img src="images/motion_pad_touched_text.png"
     height="450"
     align="center"></p>
<p>the buttons which appear if the screen is touched down</p>
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<dl>
<dt>Move</dt>
<dd>Touch down the screen and shake your mobile device holding the finger down</dd>
<dt>Left button click</dt>
<dd>Tap at the screen or perform the following left-flick gesture: touch down the screen, move to the left button and left the finger</dd>
<dt>Right button click</dt>
<dd>Perform the following right-flick gesture: touch down the screen, move to the right button and left the finger</dd>
<dt>Drag and drop</dt>
<dd>Touch down the screen, move to the left button and shake your mobile device holding the finger down on the left button</dd>
<dt>Scroll</dt>
<dd>Touch down the screen, move to the scroll button and shake your mobile device holding the finger down on the scroll button</dd>
<dt>Input keys</dt>
<dd>Touch down the screen and move to the keyboard button</dd>
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